Trump signs executive order marking Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations

US President Donald Trump signed an government order Monday initiating the method to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as overseas terrorist organizations.

In justifying the order, Trump acknowledged that “the navy wing of the Lebanese chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions to launch a number of rocket assaults towards each civilian and navy targets inside Israel” following the Oct. 7, 2023, assault. He alleged that “a senior chief of the Egyptian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, on October 7, 2023, known as for violent assaults towards United States companions and pursuits” and that “Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood leaders have lengthy supplied materials assist to the militant wing of Hamas.”

Trump attracts the facility to designate a company as a terrorist group by 8 USC 1189. The act states: “the terrorist exercise or terrorism of the group threatens the safety of United States nationals or the nationwide safety of the US.”

Trump additionally makes use of his presidential energy to name for an emergency by 50 USC 1701, the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA). The Act states:

“Any authority …  could also be exercised to take care of any uncommon and extraordinary menace, which has its supply in complete or substantial half outdoors the US, to the nationwide safety, overseas coverage, or financial system of the US, if the President declares a nationwide emergency with respect to such menace.”

President Trump additionally cited Govt Order 13224, which was initially signed by former President George W. Bush. The chief order permits the president to “designate and block the belongings of overseas people and entities that commit, or pose a major danger of committing, acts of terrorism.”

Texas governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as terrorist organizations underneath Texas regulation on November 18.